A Project for the Paleographic Study of the Coptos Decrees
The rapid progress after the decipherment of ancient Egyptian writing led Egyptologists to approach the texts mainly from a morphosyntactic and lexicographical point of view. Paleography of only the hieratic and demotic scripts was imperative because, unlike hieroglyphs, their signs do not have an i...
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Instituto de Historia Antigua Oriental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistascientificas.filo.uba.ar/index.php/rihao/article/view/13746 https://repositoriouba.sisbi.uba.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=rihao&d=13746_oai |
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| Sumario: | The rapid progress after the decipherment of ancient Egyptian writing led Egyptologists to approach the texts mainly from a morphosyntactic and lexicographical point of view. Paleography of only the hieratic and demotic scripts was imperative because, unlike hieroglyphs, their signs do not have an immediately recognizable pictographic character. The hieroglyph was only appealing for its aesthetics. Nevertheless, the paleographic material of the hieroglyphic script may be used to assess the date of a text, infer its geographical provenance, and distinguish individual hands and workshops, as well as to conduct grammatological analysis. Today, these tasks are certainly more manageable thanks mainly to the monographic series Paléographie hiéroglyphique, launched by Dimitri Meeks in 2001. The goal is to create a new classification system of hieroglyphs independent of the current catalogs of typographic fonts. The intention of the present author is to enrich this catalogue with the paleography of the Old Kingdom Coptos decrees. This paper presents the aims and methods of this project called Paleographic Study of the 6th and 8th Dynasty Coptos Decrees, currently based at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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